Founded in 2019, Yuan Museum is a contemporary art and design museum rooted in Eastern aesthetics. Operating with a strong gallery-based program, the museum presents exhibitions and collections that explore the relationship between art, design, and everyday life.

The name Yuan carries layered meanings—Circle, Origin, Source, Power, Vision, and Assist. These interconnected ideas reflect a way of thinking grounded in continuity and return, shaping the museum’s approach to aesthetics, form, and cultural understanding. Yuan Museum seeks to rediscover aesthetic consciousness through original forms, understated poetry, and a return to essential simplicity in both appearance and concept.

Established by artist, designer, and curator Song Tao, Yuan Museum is shaped by a long-term engagement with contemporary art, design, and lifestyle aesthetics. Drawing on his experience across artistic practice, curatorial work, and design, the museum was founded as a platform that brings together art, design, and life as an integrated whole.

The museum’s collection centers on the aesthetics of life and includes art furniture, lacquer art, ceramics, contemporary art, installations, and sculpture. Through these diverse categories, Yuan Museum presents a rich and coherent view of the development of living aesthetics over the past century, tracing the exchange and evolution of Eastern and Western cultural traditions.

Through exhibitions, collections, and ongoing projects, Yuan Museum offers not only objects to be viewed, but ways of living and thinking to be considered. As a contemporary museum dedicated to lifestyle aesthetics, it continues to engage artists, designers, and audiences in an open dialogue shaped by history, material culture, and contemporary practice.